Adapting Linear Storytelling in an Interactive Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, with Sande Scoredos, Thomas Hershey, and George Suhayd of Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 21 thru Fri Jan 25, 09am-05:00pm, 56-114
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Join us for a week of lectures and workshops where student teams will consider and develop story concepts for emerging media, including motion picture visual effects and computer games. Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Media Studies (CMS) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI), this is a non-technical activity that will focus on the theoretical, historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic elements of narrative structures. Morning sessions will include lectures about linear and non-linear storytelling across media, as well as presentations on game theory, and interactive techniques to increase the depth of interactive console games and enhance storytelling. Afternoons will be coordinated in workshop format where participants will work in teams to design an interactive story scenario to be presented during a final session on Friday afternoon. Special evening presentations include a screening of SIGGRAPH 2001 Electronic Theater and a behind-the-scenes visual effects discussion of work from HARRY POTTER and other SPI projects. Participants will interact with faculty and graduate students from Comparative Media Studies, as well as with professionals from Sony Pictures Imageworks and game developers. Internship opportunities with participant companies will be also be discussed.
Contact: Alex Chisholm, 14N-207, x3-6447, alex@mit.edu
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Aspects of Mildred Pierce
William Uricchio, Edward Turk
Mon Jan 28, 07-10:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
A screening of the film noir classic "Mildred Pierce," preceded by short talks. Prof. William Uricchio will discuss the evolution from book (1941) to movie (1945). Prof. Edward Turk will speak on Joan Crawford and queer spectatorship. Screening will be followed by discussion and, of course, pie. Though not required, reading the novel Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain is recommended.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207A, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
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Martian Successor Nadesico Anime Series
Philip Tan, Sean Leonard
Mon-Fri, Jan 7-11, 14-18, 05-06:30pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Love! War! Giant Robots! A space battle cruiser confronts the Jovian threat with anime-obsessed pilots, a loopy crew, breathless comedy and a surprisingly dramatic plot. Find out why Animage readers voted this 26-episode anime series "Best Anime Show of All Time". Three episodes each weekday with discussion. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/philip/www/nadesico/
Contact: Philip Tan, 14N-217, philip@mit.edu
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Strange Cinema : The Anti-Hollywood Culture of Exploitation and Undress
Douglas Purdy
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 07-11:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
This film series will serve as a celebration of the unorthodox, the surreal, and the camp-driven. While Hollywood sticks to its broad sense of genre classification, the Midnight film breaks it down with loose labels bordering on fetish. Nazi zombies, LSD psycopaths with killer cleavage, kung-fu drunkards, flesh-eating mannequins, and deranged mystics in search of a holy mountain.
Warning: there will be exposed skin, buckets of gore, shoddy camerawork, irreligious attacks, surreal psycopaths, and an absence of bras or scripts. If this is not your dish, then please don’t eat off it.
Contact: Douglas Purdy, 14N-428, x3-2873, dgpurdy@mit.edu
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The Cinematic Philosophy of Orson Welles
Irving Singer
Fri Jan 18, 02-04:00pm, 1-390, (note room change)
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Lecture on the cinematic philosophy of Orson Welles, to be followed by a screening of Welles' rarely-seen film "The Immortal Story."
Contact: Irving Singer, E39-351, x3-2649, bis@mit.edu
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The Eleventh Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Fri Jan 18, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, "5000 Fingers of Dr. T." An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Contact: Henry Jenkins, 14N-205, x3-3068, henry3@mit.edu
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